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Mediants in Mathematics

In the previous post we learned about the mediant, which is the “wrong” way to add rationals : . While this operation is not well defined, and depends on the presentation of the rational numbers and not just their values, … Continue reading

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On one weird rational average

One of the things that I love about Mathematics, is how one can come across a mathematical problem or a phenomenon which you can look at from several points of views, each one different, yet they all combine together to … Continue reading

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